If you’re always perfectly you, and this world always this world … why sit? why practice? What do you hope to find? Dogen Zenji wrote : In general, we never depart from the place where we should be: of what use, then, are the tip-toes of training? [Nishijima] It is never apart from this very…

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We be where we be … so why do we so often wish to be someplace else? Dogen Zenji wrote : Ooyoso tôjo o hanarezu, ani shugyô no kyakutô o mochiuru mono naran ya. In general, we never depart from the place where we should be: of what use, then, are the tip-toes of training?…

I hoped to spend just one more day with these words … maybe making them simpler with a parable … Master Dogen wrote in the Fukanzazengi:Furthermore, the whole body far transcends dust and dirt: who could believe in the means of sweeping and polishing? [Nishijima] Indeed, the whole body is free from dust. Who could…

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